I've lived in Southern Africa for a long time and people sometimes ask me 'What is a Tokoloshe', for many Africans are still afraid of this evil spirit. My best definition; a Tokoloshe is the African version of our Mother-in-law. Hello to all you Wokers.
@walendxweg
Жыл бұрын
👍
@Gerechtigkeit31
4 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Victor-kv4jt
3 ай бұрын
Bruh
@captpicard6894
2 жыл бұрын
1971 was a superbly excellent year for music
@thestonedrose7962
Жыл бұрын
Yeah man 1971 was the year i was born i can remember the Happy Monday,s cover of Step on and always thought the Mondays wrote this. Now i think i like this original better.
@michaelmclaughlin8918
14 күн бұрын
I would disagree mate but this was and still is a track that was well ahead of its time.
@SyonNathanAaronAstinHewson
3 ай бұрын
Hey we are watching and listening July 2024 timeless music video 😊great sounds xx
@SyonNathanAaronAstinHewson
5 ай бұрын
This song with the heavy rhythm just brings out a primeval desire in me to dance and sing when I hear it😊
@Mike.o.s.b
Жыл бұрын
I was 17 when this first came out. I thought it was awesome then and I still do. To my mind cover versions are but pale imitations of this great song.
@Tschunasun
5 ай бұрын
I was 17 too, and for me my absolute favourite song from 1971!
@douglastetupuarikibayley2491
3 жыл бұрын
Drums, rythmns John Congos Guitars and Voices have that timeless effect on me I First heard it 1971 and its still amazing!
@alwyn626
6 ай бұрын
Have always stopped doing things to listen to this song no matter what I was doing. Loved it from the 1st time I heard it. Over 50yrs ago.
@7colliemac
Жыл бұрын
1971 .. 2 of my favourite songs was this & Get it On.. but tons of great songs in 71.
@Warp75
2 жыл бұрын
Kingos cemented his legend with just timeless singles. Great production
@Rjhs001
2 жыл бұрын
Loved the Happy Mondays cover but this, while I wasn't aware of it until 2 or 3 years ago, has something very special. I am a massive fan of Tokoloshe Man and have been since first hearing it on its release when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I never understood why John Kongos wasn't freakin huge in the UK...so good.
@TheGodParticle
11 ай бұрын
I've only just found out now while over hearing a song playing on the series, Shoestring. And ther was me thinking the Mondays wrote this lol
@GrilloTheFlightless
6 ай бұрын
I suspect the reason why he wasn’t a bigger success was due to the fact he wasn’t a great self-publicist. I’ve read that he was somewhat on the shy and quiet side and wasn’t too interested in playing live - you can even see in this video that he’s hiding somewhere at the back. At that time live touring was how you publicised and sold records. From a record company point of view it must have been a nightmare. That’s the only reason I can think of to explain why he wasn’t a bigger success in the U.K., because he recorded some fantastic songs. Great White Lady and Try To Touch Just One are really good, but people only remember Tokoloshe Man and He’s Gonna Step On You Again.
@carolebarker2195
3 жыл бұрын
The original, and best!
@brianthompson2781
Жыл бұрын
Henry Spinetti. One of the finest drummers most people have never heard of.
@kenchristie9214
Жыл бұрын
This is the studio recording. Roger Pope is on the drum kit with Mike Moran on synthesiser, talking drum, earth drum. Producer Gus Dudgeon is on chair squeak, rusty tin, earth drums.
@wonsworld61
10 ай бұрын
Spinetti was the drummer on the White Mansions album I think?
@pmimagery1295
3 жыл бұрын
Hear the vocal loop in the background??? Every rapper that ever pulled on a pair of long pants owes massive kudos to John!!!
@pl443
3 ай бұрын
That's a three-note whistle every four seconds.
@ChubbyChecker182
Ай бұрын
Apparently this tune is in the Guinnes Book Of Records as the first use of a Sample in music
@pl443
28 күн бұрын
@@ChubbyChecker182 Which is the actual sample? Is it the whistling or it the African drumming? It is very unclear which sound is the sample.
@melodyebuskin5490
2 жыл бұрын
I met John Kongos through an engineer friend named Steve Travell (now aka Trav Munro - trance DJ, music writer) back in the 80’s when I was doing songwriting, vocal sessions and living in London (I’m from the US) who told me he had to see this guy to help him set up his in-home recording studio. We knocked and when the guy opened the door and said hi my jaw dropped and I was gobsmacked! It was JK! I told John that I loved his single when I was a teenager back in the 70’s and bought it when it came out because I loved the rhythm (I’m a drummer and singer) and the message in the song about the Native Americans. I asked him if he knew that people thought he looked like John Lennon on the single cover and that it was Lennon who did this recording under an alias. He said he knew the story and he found it quite amusing. He chuckled talking about it. I asked my friend why he didn’t tell me he knew John and he said he didn’t think I’d know who he was. He was not aware that his single was a chart topper in the US as well as the UK. That was quite a day.
@carolebarker2195
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a great experience, Melodye! You're so lucky!
@melodyebuskin5490
2 жыл бұрын
@@carolebarker2195 I wish it had been a chance meeting with John Lennon which actually happened to a friend of mine in Boston. But hey, it was still an exciting moment.
@carolebarker2195
2 жыл бұрын
@@melodyebuskin5490 Yes, wouldn't that have been great?! Why, do you live in Boston too? I live not far from Liverpool and did an art course in the 80's and my teacher used to go to art college with John Lennon. He said he was rough and abrasive! Not the peace-loving type back in those days it seems!
@carolebarker2195
2 жыл бұрын
@@melodyebuskin5490 Thank you for those links, Melodye, I will check them out. Always been a Beatles fan from day one, as a kid in the 60's.
@carolebarker2195
2 жыл бұрын
@@melodyebuskin5490 Thank you, I'm not on fb but my daughter is so I'll ask her if I can have a look! I love "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize", Anthony May is brilliant in it and Judy Huxtable is beautiful. I think she was married to Peter Cook at one time. You're so lucky to see the Beatles, I was born in 1960 so would have been 6 in 1966. This teacher, Mr John Robinson, knew Stu Sutcliffe as well. He said he was dead easy to get on with, laid-back, unlike John. Not criticising John though, he was my fave Beatle. Thanks for looking at my playlists, yes I'm big on the paranormal and ufos. I put John Kongos on my 71/72 playlist as I remembered it being in the charts in 1971 as an 11 year old, and I always loved the song. Didn't John Kongos come from South Africa originally? I think I remembered reading it somewhere at the time. One of my Fab 208 magazines probably!
@sagittarius7569
8 ай бұрын
🗣 My favourite J. K. song . This song was heard in *Disco clubs* in the 70s 😎
@mikepocock575
3 жыл бұрын
Love this song,never get fed up hearing it.
@davidgeary9534
Ай бұрын
I was born 1971, big thanks to the Happy Mondays for me seeking out the original version 👍👍
@Gerechtigkeit31
4 ай бұрын
ich weiß noch gut wie wenn es gestern gewesen wäre ... war mit dem LKW unterwegs und hörte dieses Lied ich war wie Hypnotisiert ..hörte zum schluss nur Kongo... ich habe jeden Plattenladen abgesucht bis einer sich an sowas erinnern konnte, hab dann noch ca. 3 Monate auf die LP warten müssen war verrückt ... habe diesen Schatz noch immer 💓
@Tschunasun
2 ай бұрын
einer der allerbesten Songs von 1971. Der musikalische Refrain ähnelt dem besten Beatsound aller Zeiten: 'My friend Jack' by The Smoke. Fallste den nicht kennst, unbedingt hier sichern...^^
@manfredmann2766
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, I first heard this in the mid 90s, and I had no idea The Kongos band mates are his sons. They sing Come With Me Now circa 2014
@NEANOR1
3 жыл бұрын
Love it. Always have. The sound is natural to me as I am from Africa.
@tonypetts6663
Жыл бұрын
Didn't realise the happy Mondays was a cover. Totally forgot about this, I was only six in my defence, but as soon as I started playing it I was god yes, I remember. This is much better than the cover.
@hogfest5047
10 ай бұрын
remember this great beat love even after all these years !
@juleenrustan3804
2 жыл бұрын
👍I had a dream of this song. I believe it was a memory from my early childhood. So, here I looked it up. Sure shit, it's a real memory!!! 😅👍✌
@lizardspoint
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant stuff x
@TheDrogan111
Жыл бұрын
This is amazing and I'm so glad the the happy Mondays brought this to our attention. Shaun Ryder is a nutcase god haha
@Denzilcleveridge
3 жыл бұрын
We had this on a 90 minute cassette so we could have it on in the car constantly, great days.
@nacho2186
3 жыл бұрын
the sertpent brught me here, but the mondays give it to me first
@jjakkall1
3 жыл бұрын
Serpent was awesome....
@daniva
3 жыл бұрын
me too
@dominiquevanardois6427
3 жыл бұрын
@@daniva me too
@NEANOR1
3 жыл бұрын
Me too. Serpent is great! Greetings from Capetown South Africa.
@dominiquevanardois6427
3 жыл бұрын
@@NEANOR1 greetings from the south of France
@moosun6244
3 жыл бұрын
This brings out the fighting spirit out in me again,loooove it!
@iangarbutt7451
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic Memories of this great track and Tokoloshee Man!!!
@Gerechtigkeit31
4 ай бұрын
ich bekomme nach über 40 Jahren noch immer Hühnerhaut beim hören ...einfach nur spitze
@janicelourens5535
Жыл бұрын
Loved this then. Love it now
@davefinnemore6797
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant musicians 🎸🎸🎸
@BosfraBosfra
2 жыл бұрын
Ottima musica per le mie orecchie....la riascolto sempre con vero piacere ...grazie ciao ciao
@paulbuchanan4824
3 жыл бұрын
Love the Monday’s but this is different class
@myoldmate
3 жыл бұрын
The drums! Fantastic song almost tribal.
@garylamb9809
3 жыл бұрын
John Kongos was south African and used tribal beats like you say. 👍
@jeremycollingwood8476
3 жыл бұрын
First double tracked Brundi drums...
@KOSMICKEN09
2 жыл бұрын
Incredible song
@SyonNathanAaronAstinHewson
4 ай бұрын
This basic stuff that relentless beat carries you along to your destination wherever that may be it is music from the dawn of time
@j.d.hughes3728
3 жыл бұрын
This is such an acid riff!
@walendxweg
Жыл бұрын
Sublimisime SPIRIT TEMPO
@taspan737
2 жыл бұрын
He is a Greek - South African 🇬🇷🇿🇦🇬🇷
@daytoneman
3 жыл бұрын
The original & best! '
@raywalden6965
2 жыл бұрын
Good old days great song
@NightshadeKc
3 жыл бұрын
Need to get my Denim out of the closet FINALLY. Love it
@NEANOR1
2 жыл бұрын
So who is listening to this in 2022? HNY from Cape Town South Africa.
@robertwynne6451
3 жыл бұрын
The Serpent also brought me here. I was not aware of this version. I only knew the Australian version by The Party Boys.
@brucepappas6298
4 жыл бұрын
Cool song. Great drumming.
@folon23Hocine
Жыл бұрын
Bought this single when i was 19.❤❤❤
@lizardspoint
Жыл бұрын
I brought it in 1971 x
@folon23Hocine
Жыл бұрын
@@lizardspoint Our generation is unique.👍
@noseyparker6622
3 жыл бұрын
Love the bass guitar on this.....great song.
@paullandry5594
3 жыл бұрын
I love the way the bass goes up a note as an introduction to each verse and chorus.
@garylove5475
Жыл бұрын
@@paullandry5594 Agree … everything about this track is right.the vocals , modulation , production, heavy back drop… takes me right back to early teens …great band
@Harker777
2 ай бұрын
Everything about this track is great but that bass is king. Love it.
@bobradford2637
3 жыл бұрын
Yep, it took off big in the UK.
@stevenewart3873
3 жыл бұрын
This is twisting my melon man.
@johnbeckernunurbus15
2 жыл бұрын
… Hey rainmaker come away From that man you know He's gonna take away your promised land … Hey good lady He just want what you got You know he'll never stop … Until he's taken the lot Gonna stamp out your fire He can change your desire … Don't you know that he can make You forget you're a man Gonna stamp out your fire … He can change your desire Don't you know that he can make You forget you're a man You're a man He's a man … He's gonna step on you again He's gonna step on you again He's gonna step on you again He's gonna step on you again … Hey rainmaker he got golden plans I tell you he make you A stranger in your land … Hey good lady He got God on his side He got a double tongue … You never think that he lie Gonna stamp out Hey rainmaker come away … From that man you know He's gonna take away your promised land Hey good lady … He got God on his side He got a double tongue You never think that he lie
@walterrej
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I have such a hard time understanding some of the lyrics, but you got 'em down!
@stephensmith799
Жыл бұрын
Could be about Boris Johnson.
@yevrahhipstar3902
Жыл бұрын
Excellent! But what does it all mean?
@stephensmith799
Жыл бұрын
@@yevrahhipstar3902 It’s about the destruction of First Nation tribes by the evangelical European conquest of the American Plains… as I hear it.
@yevrahhipstar3902
Жыл бұрын
@@stephensmith799 Yeah....I can hear that. And I like the song even more betterer now.
@FabienneFlici
Жыл бұрын
Que de souvenirs ❤❤❤😂😂😂
@SyonNathanAaronAstinHewson
5 ай бұрын
That great bass it’s clubbing music the forerunner of trance😮
@pl443
3 ай бұрын
I love the way the bass goes up a note at the start of each verse and chorus.
@driver4011
3 жыл бұрын
everything about this so good that it became a great cover by happy mondays 20 years later.
@ianburgess1436
3 жыл бұрын
Just listened to the Happy Mondays version. No where near as good as the original
@seanspencer6644
3 жыл бұрын
@@ianburgess1436 check out The Party Boys cover
@vincentscott6168
2 жыл бұрын
Just awesome 👌.
@omega7311
2 жыл бұрын
Oh yeh
@songcoversandthingsofinter2641
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot 😊
@GreenLad38
Жыл бұрын
Great blues rocky song 🎵
@ChrisHilton-xl4uz
2 ай бұрын
Cant understand why they werent bigger. Brilliant band.❤
@luxford60
Жыл бұрын
Only just now discovering that this wasn't a Happy Mondays original. This is better than that version was.
@KOSMICKEN09
2 жыл бұрын
Happy Mondays Step On 😄 But I like this one more
@songcoversandthingsofinter2641
2 жыл бұрын
Yay! Thank you!
@catherinenewman573
3 жыл бұрын
I prefer this original version to the happy Mondays anyway.
@steve3150
2 жыл бұрын
brings back memories.
@tefiknurishmi8281
Жыл бұрын
Super John Kongos
@ChubbyChecker182
Ай бұрын
Apparently this tune is in the Guinness Book Of Records as the first use of a sample in music
@supermansyfronts
Жыл бұрын
I didn’t even know the Happy Mondays version was a remake. Jeez
@johntate5050
9 ай бұрын
I never knew Happy Monday's version was a cover.
@spenstrangward5126
3 ай бұрын
The happy Monday's nicking stuff again 😂😂😂
@CutieJones1972
Ай бұрын
They never invented anything anyway. Neither did The Stone Roses. Rock and Roll Swindle😁
@luckyluke-zr5hh
2 жыл бұрын
Les premières boums que de souvenirs avec ce morceau.🎵🎶👏
@jacquelinefox2632
2 жыл бұрын
Oh really. Oh well..Konga. Shut the band.... Love this. J. Xxxxxxxx
@dahmit100
2 жыл бұрын
He lived in first Avenue Barnes, had s recording studios in the basement of the house
@maryse.pepita8608
3 жыл бұрын
Quel plaisir d avoir entendu ce morceau dans lle serpent.
@arianbyw3819
Ай бұрын
Nice to see Henry spinetti on screen!
@nothingisreal8618
3 жыл бұрын
Call the cops!
@harrymckeating
3 жыл бұрын
Henry Spinetti on drums
@robertbriggs7100
3 жыл бұрын
The original version and best
@LowgaenSchmidt
3 жыл бұрын
I love the simplicity of this version, but I absolutely loved the slightly heavier twist that Def Leppard put on it with their version on the Yeah! album
@anthonybailey1966
3 жыл бұрын
You're twisting my melon man....!! 😉
@elizabethterracciano2565
3 жыл бұрын
Def Leppard, Def Schmeppard, The Kongas rules this is exceptional and essence of the early 70s
@nacho2186
3 жыл бұрын
mondays rulez
@markt4110
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing tune, but why does it remind me of "A Mars A Day Helps You Work Rest And Play"? I know John Kongos wrote ads and jingles too, did he write the Mars one?
@neilkelly891
Жыл бұрын
Great tune. Sounds like I Am The Walrus
@thesubhumancomedy
6 ай бұрын
Who knew this one could be a tune for Madchester. And what a tune - Step On to the roofs
@theobougie7656
3 жыл бұрын
Great record,remind me of my youth 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
@songcoversandthingsofinter2641
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@frankwilkins4992
3 жыл бұрын
67 2day still love it
@dmcgarvey956
2 жыл бұрын
Me too 😜
@peternaylor2423
4 жыл бұрын
Classic.
@CutieJones1972
Ай бұрын
Who's here because of..... John Kongos?
@karadcd
3 жыл бұрын
.... There is always a Greek in every myth!!!!!
@adinocc2042
Жыл бұрын
Pretty cool!
@martinsaban769
3 жыл бұрын
First record I ever bought
@dennisr.levesque2320
3 жыл бұрын
I get the tribal African comments. But, I think it sounds sounds more like an Indian war dance. "Hey rain-maker"? Africans were taken out of Africa. But, it was the Indians who lost their "promised land". Both lyrics and music are excellent.
@crognjoharding9447
2 жыл бұрын
Soooo cool
@dars5229
Жыл бұрын
Excuse you, madam, I happen to be kicking it old school.
@kathleenmclaughlin4153
7 ай бұрын
How good was this eh??
@Gerechtigkeit31
4 ай бұрын
noch wie vor über 40 jahren ❣💕💞👌👊👊💪💪💪💥💥
@rosalienad
3 жыл бұрын
Le serpent 👍
@bryanwilliamson3941
2 жыл бұрын
Another good version was the Party Boys from Australia 1987
@JMBluecoat8289
3 жыл бұрын
Who knew that years after The Happy Mondays a hipster band would cover their Step On hit?
@JMBluecoat8289
3 жыл бұрын
Marginalis Yes. Hipsters. They’ve all got beards, haven’t they?
@flooberbloob
2 жыл бұрын
Hopefully you're joking. If not, this is the original from 1971, ya numbnuts
@JMBluecoat8289
2 жыл бұрын
Eamonn Byrne what do you think?
@markt4110
2 жыл бұрын
🤣 I hadn't heard the original til a couple of years ago, when I did, I thought, "This is a great cover, much better than the original" 🤣 I've heard at least three other covers since.
@KOSMICKEN09
2 жыл бұрын
I love both versions
@greenaum
2 жыл бұрын
Hey hey hey! Hey hey hey!
@pcaetano7527
3 жыл бұрын
happy Mondays sent some people here.
@Tschunasun
5 ай бұрын
The sound and electric guitar sounds are similar to the mega sound of the best beat sound: 'My friend Jack' by The Smoke from 67! Best underground music ever
@stevenboswell7536
3 жыл бұрын
Mondays version,whilst showing their appreciation of it,fucken murdered it.Steven Boswell.edinburgh
@greenaum
2 жыл бұрын
It's amazing to realise that basically everything the Mondays version had, is in the original. Stuff you think they might have added but no, it's all there. Everything apart from Bez.
@walpert09
2 жыл бұрын
@@greenaum "Twisting my melon" ?
@CarloRegadasGuitar
2 жыл бұрын
Call the cops 🚔👮♂️
@jamesbrannigan5620
2 жыл бұрын
There's many Mondays mixes of this. One is much more faithful to the original with a better take on the tribal drumming. Remember they originally recorded it as a throw away track for an Elektra complilation but when Oakenfold and Osborne remixed it, it had 'hit single' written all over it with that piano loop and they badly needed a big hit. I always hated the call the cops stuff as it was overdone, I love the Mondays and it kind of turned it into too much of a novelty pop record. Can understand why they did it though, it helped the album to go huge. Always thought they should have put the other version on the album. I know it kind of defines them to many people but it's nowhere near their best stuff, not even close. But hey, they paid homage and covered Tokoloshe Man too...
@stephenduncan3605
9 ай бұрын
@@greenaum no "twisting ma melon man" in this version though and no "he he he hay"
@invinoveritaslol
4 жыл бұрын
great upload Edi
@rotqehzaid4157
3 жыл бұрын
Este cover que lo hace Def leppard en yeah 2006 genial
@liudmylapiddubna233
7 ай бұрын
👍👍👍
@FabienneFlici
Жыл бұрын
😂😂❤❤😮😮
@TheMentalblockrock
2 жыл бұрын
WAY better than the happy Mondays version #Pure_Blood xxx
@phillipramm5001
3 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what this song is about? Does it matter?
@guscairns1
2 жыл бұрын
Yup. He's South African, remember. "Hey rainmaker come away From that man you know He's gonna take away your promised land" - it's about colonialism and the white man taking land and culture away from the black man. One reason it hasn't dated!
@sicks6six
3 жыл бұрын
loop recording for backing vocals, Epstein was experimenting with tape reversal/stretch/loop, But the Guinness book of records says this is the first song which used loop/sampling but I'm sure Sgt peppers album did and also revolver back in 66 on float up stream. . . its been covered by lots of people, Mondays, def Leppard, with the party boys doing a rock version of it in 87 but like most things the original is hard to beat. . .
@melodyebuskin5490
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the Beatles started the whole tape loop thing.
@johnlawrence7386
3 жыл бұрын
No idea what the message is, but I just like the song.
@michaelroleston7901
3 жыл бұрын
It's about south African politics, stepping on the black man, there from S.A
@ziggystardust52
3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelroleston7901, could apply to many times anyone has taken another’s land (Americas, Australia, New Zealand).
@mal334455
3 жыл бұрын
I look at my self in the mirror when i hear this
@cyberspace667
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah there might be a context around the writing of it but the great thing about songs like this is they mean precisely whatever significance they have to you 🤙🏾
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